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Chicago examiner * * it monday Chicago february 25 191s monday registered d'omit rnv\.f p , p"vt , i in Chicago elsewhere u s patont office t___ll luu j j and s j ÃŸ rjÃŸÃŸ3 three cexts ] vol xvi xo 5g a m russia's debacle seen as peace aid by h h stansbury washington expects bolshevik action to widen wedge be tween austria and germany no military advantage to kaiser seen in occupi-ion of baltic provinces army is tied up london feb 24 â€” polish mem bers of the austrian reichsrath continue criticisms of germany over terms of the ukrainian peace treaty and the resumption of mili tary operation against russia a dispetch from vienna to the hague repeats reports of several days ago that dissolution of the reichsrath was expected unless the poles cdased their attacks man correspondent of the i-xaminer washington feb 24â€”presi dent wilson and col e m house have been in confer ence ovet the russian situation at the executive mansion in the last i twenty-four hours no announcement has been made but similar discussions have preceded every important diplomatic move by he president since the beginning of american participation in the war a high authority said tc-day sign ing of a peace agreement between the bolsheviki and the german mili tarists will not change the policy of iho united states one iota the politically demoralized and war stricken russian peoples will not be abandoned u"s to aid in bringing new leaders forward no matter what i;ind of a german yoke is forced upon russia by the irresponsible leaders of the present time the struggle lor freedom through a republican form of gov ernment will be given both material ii ltd moral support resident wilson is understood to egatd the latest negotiations be tween petrograd and berlin as mere incidents of the revolution which is still in a highly transitory stage should uio soviet capitulate to german and become nonexistent an other government body reprcsenta ive of the conservative democratic elements is expected to appear wedge between austria and germany planned tu stimulate such a development m ry agency at the command of the washington government will be em ployed to encourage and give impe tus lo the wave of liberalism which is sweeping over europe this altitude toward russia is in parable from the plan to drive a political wedge between austrla-hun gary and the german mar lords it aid ihe one ray of hope in to-day's developments is the strung probabil ity ausli'ia-llunsary will resume im nediatcjy negotiations for peace such as were reflected in the recent speech il count czernin the austrian for â– i mini ter austrians asking why stay in war this situation was summarized by hit administr-.tli.il official as follows austria im realized her aims ni this war more than any other power by successes against'the armies of russia and finally by ihe russian revolution and d'sin icgi tion austria ha been re lieved offthe russian men-tee un n.y liner wrecked 140 drown aire at pipe pipr ml haul aee lost 12 women and 4 children 0 board vessel driven on rocks near st johns newfoundland passengers and crew three boat lengths from land perish in blizzard 6 bodies washed in new york feb 24 capt cook in charge of rescue work i wired to the eed cross line officials i that rockets and a line had been put m ; aboard the unsubmerged forward j part of the florizel but that no i hands had grasped it the line was shot to the ship by j naval gunners who arnved on thej | relief trains from st johns i one of the rescue ships reported ' i she had launched a boat but that the sea was so violent the lifeboat ; i men could not get within a quarter of a mile of the ship st johns n f feb 24 one hundred and forty persons were lost it is believed when the british steamer florizel was wrecked on the newfoundland coast early to-day the vessel went on the rocks at cappahayden north of cape race in a terrific blizzard while bound for new york from st johns to-night the florizel partly ! submerged is being pounded to pieces by the high seas owing to the storm it is impossible to send small boats to the rescue six bodies have been washed ashore five men seen on deck waving for help a message from broad cov i says four or five men were.setn i just at twilight on tho forecastle [ when the high sea permitted and i waving for help jt was impossible then for rescuers to do anything but it was hoped hat i with the arrival of lifesaving appa | ratus any persons still alive migh ! be rescued v another message from halifax s.'d & all aboard were lost nion tin seventy-eight passe ; gers were twelve wurr__n and four ; children -^^ arrival of rescue ships^h stirs hope of saving soivihb new i'ork 21 hope mt ! soino of tho persons aboard the _________ h_d i izel will ho saved was roused b.v messages savins a number i cue ships had arrived ou tlie b as the wrecked ship was mh sili.m-i^l ever il was doubtful rescue ships could approach iter a message from an agent .. line says m jhst arrived af place of wre vjb can do nothing from shore wre l___i ers terra nova and home lying <-_â– sea getting smoother e t , ,Â» jl be able to do something ho.i______e b':r^^bm|^fl spain holds up vessels bound for america madrid feb 24 â€” official orders have been issued post poning the departure of spanish vessels about to sail for the united states says a barcelona dispatcli this measure is said to be due to delays extending in some cases to sixty days to which spanish vessels have been sub jected in american ports anti-draf tplot seen in school j judge sullivan of board 56 asks u s inquiry educators deny charges judge dennis e sullivan conferred with officials of the federal dc i partment of justice yesterday judge sullivan chairman of the legal advisory board of district 56 declared there was a seeming disposi tion by officials of the george b swift school 5900 vinthrop av to l interfere with the examination of drafted men j school officials named the following school officials were i 1 mentioned miss harriet a eckhart pri-i-!pai percy b coffin business manager morton cressy attorney for , the school board on feb co orders were received : from springfield that the exemption i board vacate the school premises br j cause of complaints received that the examinations were laying the chil dren open to infectious diseases â€¢ judge sullivan asked for and received . a stay of the order pending the in ; uvestigation i believbs spies are active 1 1 judge fiullivan declared last night i have no doubt pro-germans j are active against us i i belfeve there was an attempt , ! to create friction in the local board i when the first examinations were ] made this summer then came the refusal to per j mlt the board to stay in the school heat at times was refused when the fuel supply was adequate in sanitary gas heaters were our only recourse and several members of the board have been ill from the gas effects miss eckhardt wont talk miss eckhardt refused to comment en judge sullivan's statement beyond affirming her intense patriotism she i declared sho was willing to lot an investigation take its course cressy admitted he had seen ad.it gen dickson and recommended the examining board be removed from the | school gompers bars parley with german labor new york feb 14 labor in the united states is too busy fight ing autocracy to enter into any ne gotiations with labor in germany that is the reply samuel gompers president of the american federa tion of labor has sent to an invita tion he received recently from karl legien head of the federated trades unions of germany to send delegates to a conference of labor for a discus sion of peace costa ricans revolt three towns taken san jl'an del scu nicaragua feb 24 â€” a revolution is under way in costa f.ica wire service has been broken between the frontier and has canas it i.s known that the towns of alajuela san mateo and heredia arc in the hands of the rev olutionists caillaux ill in prison may go to infirmary piaris feb 24 â€” ex-premier ca.il lau who is in the santo prison harked with treason and who lias been ill for three days is reported suffering from indigestion he may be transferred to an infirmarj at fresnfs u s captain sent to jail as germain aide â– sentenced to 25 years by cpurt martial after refusing to serve with army in france â– i trapped into betraying where j aboutsof papers that convict ed him of helping bernstorff â– new tore feb 24 capt david j a henkes 16th u s infantry has j been sentenced by a court-martial ] here to be dismissed from the service ! and imprisoned at hard labor for j â€¢ twenty-five years capt henkes was with the ameri | ! can expeditionary force in france j j and had asked to be relieved or as ] , signed to some other work because ! ! his forbears were germans he had i | many friends and relatives in ger j | many his wife is an austrian and he : j felt he could not fight against either ! j germans or austrians | ge_i_ta peace propagandist j washington feb 24 capt d | a henkes was in toucii with get \ | man yigents before america declared ! war cdntributed to the austrian | ! turkish and bernstorff propaganda i funds and was an active exponent of peace at any price according to the judge advocate general's office j when henkes landed after being j sent back from france because of his repeated demands for acceptance of his resignation he asked permission td see his wife his request refused henkes tele phoned to mrs henkes officers who tapped the wire heard him tell his wife lo burn all his papers before she could clo so federal agents entered her home and seized j the incriminating letters ', hesigxed while in texas while stationed at san antonio tex last may henkes had written to the secretary of war urging him to accept his resignation saying further service as a commis sioned officer must sooner or later take me to europe and there bring me in conflict with my rela tives and friends although for the time being my legal enemies my father came from germany my mother was born here shortly after the arrival of her parents we have many other relatives and friends there , i cannot force myself to thy conviction that i am capable fit making war on my kindred upon their soil in a manner that would become my duty and station i earnestly request that i may ! not be required to undergo this or ] deal i seriously doubt my ability to j withstand it and would avoid in | the interest of my country family i and friends what at least appear i the probable consequences capt henkes soon after he had \ submitted his resignation was or ' dered lo france Â«, wijotf protest from france i from his quarters there on june 29 1917 and oct 10 he wrote to the l adjutant general ln washington call | ing attention to the fact that he had resigned he added : if my services will not be dis pensed with i request duty in an othet field or such duty as will j not require me to actively partici pate against my own blood or per sonally direct others in doing so 1 trust that my request may not be construed as disloyalty to my own country or that the same is inspired by a consideration of per sonal safety i am willing to do transport duty in the submarine zone or oth er duty of a similar nature all of which i will perform to the best of my ability finally he was ordered to this coun try and summoned before a general court-marlial at governor's island where he was charged with violation of the ninety-fifth article of war he will bo imprisoned at fort leavenworth kan capt henkes was born in lowa he a volunteer in tho war with spain serving as private in co g ist wisconsin infantry . a _â– by arthur constantine hoover puts allies food ahead of u.s line of supplies to be conducted at 100 per cent efficiency minimum needs will be met railroad director will provide adequate transportation for rushing shipments to europe stnff correspondent of he eiaminer washington feb 24 â€” food ad ministrator hoover will assume im mediately the supreme direction of america's food line to the allies come what may this line will be kept open at 100 per cent efficiency all success this year depends vi tally according to the food adminis trator upon the uninterrupted for warding of supplies this is the unaninous understanding in the al lies war council at versailles the first steps in his new program were revealed officially to-day in the following announcement from mri hoover the food administration will in the next two or three days com plete its organization for keep ing the director general of rail roads completely informed of the car necessities not only of the allied governments but for the do mestic movement of foodstuffs take over ally problem the bulk of allied foodstuffs is purchased directly by the allied agencies with the assistance of the food administration the arrange ments of transportation rest in the allied agencies the food administration has now directed the allied agencies to furnish it daily with their car re quirements in order that they may be transmitted to the railroad ad ministration in washington the most serious problem is the car needs due to delayed move ment of last year's crops and of live stock from the primary coun try points lo the interior terminals the mills and the manufacturing centers where they can be pur chased for export and domestic supply shippers told what to do the presentation of these needs to the railroad administration is being madc by the appointment of regional transportation agents for the food administration â€” already established in Chicago and pro posed at new york and atlanta shippers of foodstuffs should apply first to the local railway of ficials for cars and upon failure should for grain and grain prod ucts apply to the food administra tion zone managers shippers of live stock and perishables in the same difficulty should apply di rectly to the food administration in washington mrs whitehouse appeals to germans the^k ague feb 24 â€” mrs nor man der whitehousc american suf frage leader is reported to have gone to switzerland to conduct propaganda directed at german socialists and suffragists mrs whitehouse was a guest of the american embassy in berlin in the winter of 1314 villa defeated flees hunted by 2 generals el paso feb 24 â€” gen villa has been defeated near jimincz and is fleeing to the durango mountains pursued by gen eduardo hernandez and gen francisco gonzales it is reported before retiring villa dealt a hard blow at murguia's troops near escalon war telephone order cut women's gossip orange Â». j feb 24 a tele phone traffic schedule planned by the women's council of defense for tho period of the war provides that east % orange women must ceaseÂ»long conversations at certain periods every day revolt coming in fatherland reichstag told amsterdam feb 24 dr cohn independent socialist deputy in an address friday threw the reichstag into an up roar when he said the treaty with ukraine i3 not the first step toward gen eral peace i see the day com ing when revolution will reach germany and the people will take the fate of their rulers into their own hands the independent socialists cheered the speaker there were cries of traitor from other parts of the house the frankfurter zeitung says chancellor von hertling and vice chancellor von payer will address the reichstag to-morrow on for eign and domestic questions re spectively utter chaos rules russia passengers freeze on trains bread almost impossible to ob tain half million idle amsterdam feb 24 the condi tion of the russian railroads is such writes a correspondent of the tages zeitung that it is not uncommon for passengers to freeze to death in the cars as there is no glass for the windows there are only two loco motives-fn fetrograd at present and one can only make ten miles an hour mechanics are making 20 a day for four hours work under the gov ernment of the workmen's council he says / under this ruling which affects riveters the price charged for rivet ing a boiler recently was 35,000 other mechanical repairs formerly costing ln,ooo now cost 500,000 iio.i li in are idle despite these favorable conditions for the workers there is much suf fering among them as with labor at this price there is little employment the correspondent estimates the idle workmen at 500,000 and says only 5 per . cent of the mechanical trades are employed bread is almost impossible to ob tain when the teutonic delegations left petrograd recently this witness says they had not tasted bread for days woman commands regiment the bolshevik government fills re sponsible positions in the most hap hazard manner tho chief of the finance ministry is a college lad and the commander of the fifth army is a former actor the reporter of the financial commission at brest-litovsk was a clerk who says tho writer hadn't the faintest notion ot the simplest exchange prob lems the commander of the noted pav loff regiment is a woman a dutch resident writing to the nieuwe courant says that lynching occflrs daily in petrograd allied airmen bomb three german cities amsterdam feb 24 according to german newspapers received here allied air raiders dropped bombs on wehlan monday killing three per sons but causing slight property damage wednesday pirmasense ba varia was bombed several persons being wounded and some damage done to houses that same night raiders bombs damaged some houses at mannheim where a child was killed and a woman and a child in jured total eclipse of sun will occur june 8 atlanta feb 24 tho sun will be eclipsed june 808 0 the total eclipse being visible throughout the united states along a path about soventy miles wide extending from portland ore through bÂ«nver colo jackson miss and orla&do fla in all other portions the afclipso will be p rtlal tn.e moon will/be eclipsed june 24 1 russia submits td berlin terihg trotsky and lenine yield to ulti-i matum germans sweep on proclaim petrograd as goal i brest-litovsk parleys to be re newed at once teutons ad vance 120 miles in two days amsterdam feb 24 formal ; l i peace parleys between the central j powers and roumania opened yester day at castle bufftea near buch arest germany is represented by for eign secretary von kuehlmann aus tria by foreign minister czernin and bulgaria by premier radoslavoff the central powers delegates de mand territorial acquisitions for bul garia and economic preference for germany and austria premier averasco chief of the roumanian delegates asked leave to present these terms to king ferdi nand at jassy a short adjournment has been taken london feb 24 russia has ac cepted the conqueror's peace terms imposed by the german ultimatum the pourparlers at brest-litovsk are to be reopened at once this russian official wireless ad dressed to all was received here this evening ""> according to the decision of the central executive committee of the soviets taken at 4:30 sunday morn ing the soviets and people's com missaries have decided to accept germany's peace conditions and will send a delegation to brest litovsk a second official wireless address ed to berlin said a representative of the soviet left to-day at noon for dvjnsk to transmit the reply of rus sia to germany's forty-eight-hour peace ultimatum germans advance 120 miles in two days an amsterdam dispatcli confirm i ing the news of russia's submission , announces that the germans already j have reappointed count duernitz to represent bavaria in the new brest litovsk parleys in the meantime the german ad vance into russia continues on a 500 mile front the invaders are dis tributing proclamations announcing that germany has moved a great army to the russian front and intends to take petrograd all resistance is useless the rus sians are warned \ narva 80 miles from capital in peril the berlin official war statement to-day shows that the germans have advanced their lines in the ukraine 120 miles in two days and that in the north although they met some resistance their progress was almost as fast a retrograd dispatch says the city of narva only eighty miles from pet i rograd is preparing for a siege another petrograd dispatch says that during the german advance north of dvlnsk one russian regi ment sent a delegation with a white flag to explain that it was all a mistake as the ttussians were not at war their proffer was met by a volley and the envoys were killed tho petrograd official dispatch which gave the news of russia's ca pitulation said premier lenine and foreign minister trotsky acting for the central council of soviets had for mally accented â– the german terms extra francis dep arts petrograd london feb 24 a petrograd dispatch dated saturday says the american and japanese embassies and the chinese si amese and brazilian legations are leaving petrograd to-day for vyatka or vologda if neces sary they will go to vladivo stok a russian dispatch received saturday said the allied embas sies would leave petrograd it the german advance threatened the city washington reported that ambassador francis has notified the slate department it might be necessary to quit petrograd the only way out of russia is by way of vladivostok u.sen silence german guns three americans wounded when foe shells trenches enemy batteries crippled with the american army in france feb 24 â€” the german bom bardment of the american line northwest of toul was considerably more intense than usual to-day an last night the enemy apparently was using more guns than customary to-day but little damage was done three americans were slightl wounded early this morning . yesterday the germans concen trated their artillery fire on one ol our positions planning to obliter ate it german gins silenced the american artillery quickly set up a retaliatory fire twice as heavy as the enemy's and the german guns ceased firing since theu only a few point and it is ' possible the hostile point ad it is possible the hostile batteries were crippled american patrols operated freely friday night without encountering any germans an enemy patrol was discovered inside our entanglements it was quickly driven back by ma chine gun and rifle fire foe uses baseball bombs the enemy dropped a new typfe of bomb resembling a baseball into tlie trenches yesterday but no damage was done owing to poor visibility there was less firing on the whole sector but tho germans continued to shell towns behind the lines including one hither to not molested asquith predicts new british election soon london feb 24 â€” former " pre mier asquith asserted a general elec tion is inevitable while addressing a meeting of the liberal whips and agents friday according to an offi cial report of the address he added that preparations should be made to meet the election within a few weeks his speech dealt mainly with change due to the last franchise bill espe cially the women's vote german aims will fail says gibbons baltimore feb 21 the ger man war aims are due to fail said cardinal gibbons this morning in a striking sermon preached at the ca thedral here he discussed tilt mar velous diffusion of the primitiv christian religion sweden seizes aland islands after battle petrograd feb 24 the bol shevik news agency aiinoyfhces that swedish troops have occijjied the aland islands after sharp ftsistunce by russian forces continued on pjianc id column continued on 2d page sth column o the weather lj j ' foh Chicago and vlcl ' zz 1tv â€” unsettled monday rniit find colder in afternoon lurn i i to kiiow at nisrlit tucs j day snow flurries â€¢ nnd much (' colder fresh northwest winds 1 [ tiimi'enatiite j j j iliÃŸh..st 38 lowest 41 mean 50 ft final m leditionu

Chicago examiner * * it monday Chicago february 25 191s monday registered d'omit rnv\.f p , p"vt , i in Chicago elsewhere u s patont office t___ll luu j j and s j ÃŸ rjÃŸÃŸ3 three cexts ] vol xvi xo 5g a m russia's debacle seen as peace aid by h h stansbury washington expects bolshevik action to widen wedge be tween austria and germany no military advantage to kaiser seen in occupi-ion of baltic provinces army is tied up london feb 24 â€” polish mem bers of the austrian reichsrath continue criticisms of germany over terms of the ukrainian peace treaty and the resumption of mili tary operation against russia a dispetch from vienna to the hague repeats reports of several days ago that dissolution of the reichsrath was expected unless the poles cdased their attacks man correspondent of the i-xaminer washington feb 24â€”presi dent wilson and col e m house have been in confer ence ovet the russian situation at the executive mansion in the last i twenty-four hours no announcement has been made but similar discussions have preceded every important diplomatic move by he president since the beginning of american participation in the war a high authority said tc-day sign ing of a peace agreement between the bolsheviki and the german mili tarists will not change the policy of iho united states one iota the politically demoralized and war stricken russian peoples will not be abandoned u"s to aid in bringing new leaders forward no matter what i;ind of a german yoke is forced upon russia by the irresponsible leaders of the present time the struggle lor freedom through a republican form of gov ernment will be given both material ii ltd moral support resident wilson is understood to egatd the latest negotiations be tween petrograd and berlin as mere incidents of the revolution which is still in a highly transitory stage should uio soviet capitulate to german and become nonexistent an other government body reprcsenta ive of the conservative democratic elements is expected to appear wedge between austria and germany planned tu stimulate such a development m ry agency at the command of the washington government will be em ployed to encourage and give impe tus lo the wave of liberalism which is sweeping over europe this altitude toward russia is in parable from the plan to drive a political wedge between austrla-hun gary and the german mar lords it aid ihe one ray of hope in to-day's developments is the strung probabil ity ausli'ia-llunsary will resume im nediatcjy negotiations for peace such as were reflected in the recent speech il count czernin the austrian for â– i mini ter austrians asking why stay in war this situation was summarized by hit administr-.tli.il official as follows austria im realized her aims ni this war more than any other power by successes against'the armies of russia and finally by ihe russian revolution and d'sin icgi tion austria ha been re lieved offthe russian men-tee un n.y liner wrecked 140 drown aire at pipe pipr ml haul aee lost 12 women and 4 children 0 board vessel driven on rocks near st johns newfoundland passengers and crew three boat lengths from land perish in blizzard 6 bodies washed in new york feb 24 capt cook in charge of rescue work i wired to the eed cross line officials i that rockets and a line had been put m ; aboard the unsubmerged forward j part of the florizel but that no i hands had grasped it the line was shot to the ship by j naval gunners who arnved on thej | relief trains from st johns i one of the rescue ships reported ' i she had launched a boat but that the sea was so violent the lifeboat ; i men could not get within a quarter of a mile of the ship st johns n f feb 24 one hundred and forty persons were lost it is believed when the british steamer florizel was wrecked on the newfoundland coast early to-day the vessel went on the rocks at cappahayden north of cape race in a terrific blizzard while bound for new york from st johns to-night the florizel partly ! submerged is being pounded to pieces by the high seas owing to the storm it is impossible to send small boats to the rescue six bodies have been washed ashore five men seen on deck waving for help a message from broad cov i says four or five men were.setn i just at twilight on tho forecastle [ when the high sea permitted and i waving for help jt was impossible then for rescuers to do anything but it was hoped hat i with the arrival of lifesaving appa | ratus any persons still alive migh ! be rescued v another message from halifax s.'d & all aboard were lost nion tin seventy-eight passe ; gers were twelve wurr__n and four ; children -^^ arrival of rescue ships^h stirs hope of saving soivihb new i'ork 21 hope mt ! soino of tho persons aboard the _________ h_d i izel will ho saved was roused b.v messages savins a number i cue ships had arrived ou tlie b as the wrecked ship was mh sili.m-i^l ever il was doubtful rescue ships could approach iter a message from an agent .. line says m jhst arrived af place of wre vjb can do nothing from shore wre l___i ers terra nova and home lying according to the decision of the central executive committee of the soviets taken at 4:30 sunday morn ing the soviets and people's com missaries have decided to accept germany's peace conditions and will send a delegation to brest litovsk a second official wireless address ed to berlin said a representative of the soviet left to-day at noon for dvjnsk to transmit the reply of rus sia to germany's forty-eight-hour peace ultimatum germans advance 120 miles in two days an amsterdam dispatcli confirm i ing the news of russia's submission , announces that the germans already j have reappointed count duernitz to represent bavaria in the new brest litovsk parleys in the meantime the german ad vance into russia continues on a 500 mile front the invaders are dis tributing proclamations announcing that germany has moved a great army to the russian front and intends to take petrograd all resistance is useless the rus sians are warned \ narva 80 miles from capital in peril the berlin official war statement to-day shows that the germans have advanced their lines in the ukraine 120 miles in two days and that in the north although they met some resistance their progress was almost as fast a retrograd dispatch says the city of narva only eighty miles from pet i rograd is preparing for a siege another petrograd dispatch says that during the german advance north of dvlnsk one russian regi ment sent a delegation with a white flag to explain that it was all a mistake as the ttussians were not at war their proffer was met by a volley and the envoys were killed tho petrograd official dispatch which gave the news of russia's ca pitulation said premier lenine and foreign minister trotsky acting for the central council of soviets had for mally accented â– the german terms extra francis dep arts petrograd london feb 24 a petrograd dispatch dated saturday says the american and japanese embassies and the chinese si amese and brazilian legations are leaving petrograd to-day for vyatka or vologda if neces sary they will go to vladivo stok a russian dispatch received saturday said the allied embas sies would leave petrograd it the german advance threatened the city washington reported that ambassador francis has notified the slate department it might be necessary to quit petrograd the only way out of russia is by way of vladivostok u.sen silence german guns three americans wounded when foe shells trenches enemy batteries crippled with the american army in france feb 24 â€” the german bom bardment of the american line northwest of toul was considerably more intense than usual to-day an last night the enemy apparently was using more guns than customary to-day but little damage was done three americans were slightl wounded early this morning . yesterday the germans concen trated their artillery fire on one ol our positions planning to obliter ate it german gins silenced the american artillery quickly set up a retaliatory fire twice as heavy as the enemy's and the german guns ceased firing since theu only a few point and it is ' possible the hostile point ad it is possible the hostile batteries were crippled american patrols operated freely friday night without encountering any germans an enemy patrol was discovered inside our entanglements it was quickly driven back by ma chine gun and rifle fire foe uses baseball bombs the enemy dropped a new typfe of bomb resembling a baseball into tlie trenches yesterday but no damage was done owing to poor visibility there was less firing on the whole sector but tho germans continued to shell towns behind the lines including one hither to not molested asquith predicts new british election soon london feb 24 â€” former " pre mier asquith asserted a general elec tion is inevitable while addressing a meeting of the liberal whips and agents friday according to an offi cial report of the address he added that preparations should be made to meet the election within a few weeks his speech dealt mainly with change due to the last franchise bill espe cially the women's vote german aims will fail says gibbons baltimore feb 21 the ger man war aims are due to fail said cardinal gibbons this morning in a striking sermon preached at the ca thedral here he discussed tilt mar velous diffusion of the primitiv christian religion sweden seizes aland islands after battle petrograd feb 24 the bol shevik news agency aiinoyfhces that swedish troops have occijjied the aland islands after sharp ftsistunce by russian forces continued on pjianc id column continued on 2d page sth column o the weather lj j ' foh Chicago and vlcl ' zz 1tv â€” unsettled monday rniit find colder in afternoon lurn i i to kiiow at nisrlit tucs j day snow flurries â€¢ nnd much (' colder fresh northwest winds 1 [ tiimi'enatiite j j j iliÃŸh..st 38 lowest 41 mean 50 ft final m leditionu